#brad's eyes

[ensign-solhunder]

Good Friends & Bad Days

just messing around with styles and brushes 🤷‍♀️

[swordlunge-wav]

good grief.

[cowboygideon]

I've been watching community (and mythic quest) and danny pudi is so beautiful it actually hurts ?? somehow ?? I'm rewinding scenes just to watch him talk !! what is happening i feel like im losing my mind. but it's just that his big brown baby cow eyes and fantastic bone structure have captivated me

[ruporas]

that one trope for high school au... (ID in alt)

[c-hrona]

Tomorrows

"And after all was said and done, I wanted to share my tomorrows with him, don't you agree, Wolfwood?".

A what-if of what those tomorrows could have been.

(ID in Alt!)

A super self indulgent thing that, I had in mind after this tweet:

This is another little Zine that you can find on my Ko-Fi for free!

I also made a lil surprise thingie that you can find on this link and I will post it next week :D

A little wip of it:

[monkiinart]

on a roll tonight.. dourif time

[frances525]

im about to go ape shit

what the shit

what the FUCK

YOU'RE FUCJIGN TELLING ME MAYOR THANIYEL'S SON IS DEAD???? WHAT THE SHIT THATS NOT COOL OH MY GODDD

HIS ASS WAS GONNA TAKR HIM TO THE HOSPITAL DONT TELL ME ONCE THEY REACH THERE BRAD'S ALREADY DEAD OGUFHFH IM GONNA END IT AALLLLL

[raapija]

Nando fr went: "who the FUCK is this old ass man??? Is HE the one who parked in my peepaw spot in the parking lot??? Where do I FIGHT him???"

[thisshitisridiculous]

gotta say me? i loved the brad plot, man comes in all flack all ego, falls in love with bobby, gets yelled at in viral video by said beloved bobby, manipulates that situation to get to follow bobby around all day, gets his ego knocked down a peg and rediscovers the importance of entertainment art in people's lives and reaffirms the meaning of his life in a classically 911 masturbatory speech. it's not about brad as a character it's about the writers telling us they know this show is important to us and that it's okay to care deeply about the media you consume, even if it's silly, even if it's corny and has plot lines dropped and picked up out of nowhere, it's a fun time and sometimes that's all that matters. sometimes that's what people need. plus brad was played by the hot british boy from princess diaries 2

[exdeputysonso]

Brad Dourif as Charles Lee Ray | CHUCKY 3.06 Panic Room

[six-demon-bag]

SESSION 9 (2001) dir. Brad Anderson

[n1nthrule]

thinking about her

[gaybroons]

hi since no one posted this yet (x)

[first-class-feral]

brad dourif scrungly feature analysis: eyes

from the “Boys” dourif-hottie supercut music video:

I’d love to see an artist break this down!

For now, let me write you a novel about Brad's spectacular eyes...

The Strangeness

(Skip if you want to preserve the mystery.) BD's right eye is placed a little higher, and turned up as if tugged from the outer corner. I think it's part of that subtle something that immediately sets him apart. This unique, catlike, romantic asymmetry snatches your attention.

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The glow

His striking, chameleonic blues capture light — even in B&W — which directors loooooove to exploit by lighting him obliquely:

It's a great way to crank up the eerie vibe of any scene, and I respect Star Trek for trashing that option outright with all-black contacts. (Of course, he still served an incredibly compelling outsider.)

(Edit: I put up a post just about this effect because they seriously do it all the damn time) (...because it's awesome)

Set in shadows

He has hooded eyes, deep-set and accentuated by heavy eye bags. The shadows and textures draw you in toward those luminescent irises, like picture frames that amplify each motion of his eyes.

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Contrast

Sometimes he pops them wide open, creating these huge, expressive magnets...

...Or squints lopsidedly...

...Or interrogates, challenges, threatens — alert but defensive, like a prey animal on the edge of lashing out.

He’s said he chooses roles that "turn him on" (pretty clearly in an artistic sense); many of these blend menace and vulnerability, and our boy dumps emotion into every. single. line. This can manifest as an intense, wary, combative look, with eyes wide under neutral or furrowed brows:

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Cry, baby

...And that's all before we mention the tears. He cries, of course, at will and liberally, and his eyes go red-rimmed and wet, highlighting them even more as he pins someone's soul to the wall with his gaze.

When he hovers right on the edge, they seem to shine in the dark.

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Bared

At times, his fair eyelashes almost vanish, compounding his unusual look with a birdlike or reptilian tinge.

Obviously, the shaved brows in LOTR add to this effect.

A couple more things you'll notice here: he'll hold his eyes wide open for much longer than normal, drawing out these moments and making him seem even more alien.

And when he gets up-close in someone's face (which is often), he's constantly switching his gaze between their eyes — totally fixated, as if scanning for emotional feedback. In my opinion, it adds to that vulnerability: to the object of his attention, he must seem like a predator freezing them in place... but it's also desperate, like a prey animal trying to decipher the other person's intent, all senses tuned to pick up their slightest signal. (Gríma Wormtongue and Jack Dante especially have this pathetic air about them: grasping at sources of warmth while lashing out at the harsh, unintelligible world around them, allying themselves with uncontrollable destructive forces in an attempt to establish a place for themselves........)

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TL;DR

The eyes — and how he uses them — are the standout scrungly feature, the main reason we can’t look away from this unforgettable weirdo.

The cat-eye asymmetry pulls focus;

His ice-blue irises are light traps, framed in textured shadow;

His full-bore emotional commitment ramps up the anguish and torment to an aching crescendo that's impossible to ignore.

Eventually I'll follow up on other contributing factors, but for now, I'll leave you with a couple of article snippets about The Eyes:

Imagi-Movies: Vol 1 No 2 — Winter 1993/94. Pages 11-13: "Traumatic - Brad Dourif". Link

SoHo News: November-December 1981. "Tension and mercy - Brad Dourif glowers for our sins" (an article all about his eyes! But they don't mention the asymmetry.)

[Gifs were mostly stolen from the GOAT, @exdeputysonso — with some of my own, mostly the square ones. Shout-out to @dragonsbloodsnowcone for inspiring this word vomit.]

Thanks for reading!

[fujobritta]

DANNY PUDI as BRAD BAKSHI

Mythic Quest, Season 4, Episode 3: 1000%

[coffins-flowers]

Idk if somebody did it before but I haven’t seen it sooo…

@giro-x your AU is so great, I love the designs, I love the concept, I love both extremaly Goofy movie and Mickey in three musketeers, I love the artstyle, I love love love everything